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another layer and bake it; when done all one 
has to do is to takeoff the top and pat the 
berries in, there is no need to cut the cake 
open with a thread as some do; the result 
is most satisfactory. 
A friend with whom I took dinner not 
long since mashed and seasoned carrots for 
dinner just as you would potatoes they 
were very nice. I cook them often since in 
the same way, and for a change sometimes 
chop them very fine, and season with salt, 
pepper, butter and milk. 
Instead of always cooking corn in milk, 1 
stir into one can of corn, oneegg, two table¬ 
spoonfuls of flour, a little milk, salt and 
pepper, and bake in small cakes in a well 
greyed tin in the oven, or fry in lard on 
the stove; butter, however, is much nicer, 
as a frying medium. MRS JOHN monsky. 
REST FOR THE ST AY-AT HOMES. 
VERY year the sensible custom of tak¬ 
ing a vacation during the extreme 
heat of summer becomes more nearly 
universal, and yet the army of stay at- 
homes greatly outnumbers those who are 
able to get away for an outing. Especially 
is the fortunate number small among the 
over burdened mothers and housewives of 
the great middle class. 
Very many of these women keenly real¬ 
ize that they are overworked and exhausted; 
that they need an entire change of sur¬ 
roundings and conditions in which to 
recuperate their nervous and physical 
strength. Neither is the average “ Gude 
Mon” as stupid and blind to his wife’s 
needs as many writers would have us be¬ 
lieve. 
But a mountain of difficulty often stands 
in the way, a really unsurmountable bar¬ 
rier against a change. The family purse is 
already over-taxed : no reliable woman can 
be found to come and care for the children, 
and to go and take them is even more 
wearing than staying at home, while to go 
and ftel a constant anxiety in regard to 
them is even harder. In either case the 
conscientious mother prefers staying at 
home. 
Now while it is wise to submit gracefully 
to the inevitable, there is sometimes a 
higher wisdom than passive submission, 
which is shown in resolutely setting one’s 
self at work to revolutionize the monoto¬ 
nous grind of daily life, and shllt the do¬ 
mestic harness so that it shall not con¬ 
stantly gall the same old wound. 
In this way one may obtain the best pos¬ 
sible results of a vacation and yet not shirk 
a single real duty. 
Very much of the irritability and dis¬ 
satisfaction of housewives comes from ex¬ 
pecting too much of themselvts and of 
others. 
J uly and August are exacting months at 
best and doubly so to the farmer’s wife. 
Determine then that you will undertake 
no unnecessary tjsks during that time. 
See that the common substantial food of 
your family is carefully cooked and served 
in a neat and attractive manner. Have an 
abundance of fresh vegetables, eggs, milk 
and fruit, but eat sparingly of meat and 
expend little time and strength cooking 
fancy desserts or other dishes. 
Do not econom ze in washing as far as 
thorough cleanliness is concerned. Have 
an abundant supply of plain, weil fitting, 
nicely-finished garments for your children's 
every-day wear, and resolutely set your¬ 
self against the prevalent custom of over¬ 
trimming them. Cotton trimmings are 
cheap and tucks and frills easily made on 
a sewing machine, but laundrying them is 
a sore tax on some one’s time and vitality. 
Yes, close the shutters and darken the 
rooms, after they have had a thorough ven¬ 
tilation and cooling out during the early 
morning; but do not sit or He down in 
those darkened rooms yourself unless it is 
absolutely necessary. 
Your first wise resolve was to save your 
time and strength. Let your next be to 
spend as much time as possible out-of- 
doors. Nothing in the whole materia med- 
ica will strengthen weak nerves and tone 
P un as k mention Thk R. N.-Y. to our adver¬ 
tisers. 
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castorla, 
When she was a Child, she cried for Castorla, 
When she became Miss, she clung to Castorla, 
When she had Children, she gave them Castorla. 
THE RURAL N 
up a dilapidated system as effectually as 
fresh air and a daily sun bath. 
Take the tedious weekly mending out 
under the shade of the piazza or trees. Do 
all the kitchen work possible out of doors. 
It requires a great deal of time to prepare 
vegetables and fruit for the table. You 
can at least fill your lungs with fresh air 
during the operation, instead of the over¬ 
heated, impure air of the kitchen. 
Do what ironiDg you must in the shade 
of the piazza. You will probably use a lit¬ 
tle more fire in the operation, but comfort 
and health are of greater value than a few 
dollars more or less. When the housework 
is finished in the morning go out and work 
a half hour in the flower garden. If too 
exhausted for the effort lie down in a ham¬ 
mock and do a little “sensible loafing.” 
Very likely you will not rest as well at 
first as you would in doors, in the old rut; 
but persevere until you do and can go 
further and spread a blanket or comfort¬ 
able on the lawn and lie down on it and 
take a sun bath. If you have never tried 
this out door life you will be astonished to 
see how the carking, perplexing cares of 
your every-day life, will take unto them¬ 
selves wings, and you will feel an elation 
of spirits hitherto unknown. 
Get out the papers and magazines that 
you could not read thoroughly during the 
busy spriDg months and thoroughly digest 
their contents. Take an occasional stroll 
in the fields and woods in company with 
your children. Seek to awaken or increase 
their interest in nature by teaching them 
her marvelous processes. It may serve to 
show you some of your own limitations 
and send you in search of the knowledge 
you thought you possessed, but which had 
lain dormant too long for you to recall. In 
this way you will not only widen your own 
horizon but strengthen the bond of con¬ 
geniality between you. In the leisure of 
rainy days play games with the children, 
read aloud, or encourage them to read to 
you while you work. Renew your neglect¬ 
ed correspondence with absent friends, and 
impart to them some of the sunshine and 
cheer that has come into your own life from 
living “ near to nature’s heart.” This plan 
will require firm determination and per¬ 
sistency on your part. No innovations on 
old, established habits are easy, but one 
summer’s trial will convince the most 
skeptical of its value. 
New York. Katherine b Johnson. 
HELPMATES. 
OR many weeks I have read with 
interest the letters of the Rural 
sisters, and have often thought that by 
writing I might be able to help a little. I 
do not think the woman who wrote that 
she avoided friction in the home by not 
expressing her opinion about her husband’s 
business, is wise. We promised to be help¬ 
mates for our husbands. An industrious 
man who has to provide for a family is 
often overburdened with work both for 
hands and head. We wives have more time 
to think and to plan and it is a stupid 
woman indeed who cannot think of many 
things to help her husband. But of what 
use to think of such things if she is not to 
speak? I don’t mean that we are to lay 
down the law tor our husbands, or to “ ex¬ 
press our opinions” in such a very decided 
and disagreeable way that it would not be 
in human nature not to resent it. Let us 
speak kindly and pleasantly; no offenee 
bein g intended, none need be taken. Should 
the husband not agree with the wife I sup¬ 
pose he can say so; contrary ideas can be 
field without being the cause of quarreling. 
I love to have my husband’s help in the 
house whenever fie is willing to give it; but 
I would not like film to criticise my ways, 
and find fault wltn trifling things and make 
himself generally disagreeable. I never in¬ 
sist that my husband (or my children 
either) shall do anything merely because I 
would do it or like to have it done. 1 think 
most of us can trust our husbands to do 
what they think is best; if sometimes they 
make mistakes, we ought to sympathize 
with them too much to make their lives 
miserable because they had blundered. 
For my part when persons make it their 
duty to come to me in a spirit of criticism 
and faultfinding, and to assert that I don’t 
do things right and never do things right, 
and won’t do them right, when they do 
not positively know much about it, their 
suggestions have to be very much to my in¬ 
terest indeed, if I do not tnen and there 
firmly resolve to do just exactly as I have 
been doing and to continue in that way 
even if the Heavens should fall upon me 1 
(Sometimes they do !) marie. 
Texas. 
EW-YORKER. 
White Hands—T here are not so man v 
secrets in the proper treatment o. the hands 
to keep them white and soft, as people im- 
agl e, says the Woman’s Illustrated World. 
A little borax or ammonia in the water— 
which should be lukewarm—will ke p 
the skin clear and soft, ot a jit tie oat¬ 
meal will whiten the hands. The best 
preparation for the hands at night is the 
white of an egg in which a grain of al m 
has been dissolved. Quacks have a fancy 
name for it, and ct arge a good price, but 
it is easily made by any one, as is tht case 
also with the Roman toilet paste, a mixture 
of the white of an egg, barley flour, and 
honey. This is a first-rate article, but is 
sticky, an really no better than oatmeal. 
Tbe ro ghett hands may be made soft and 
white in a short time by doctoring tht m a 
little before retiring. A nail brush, am¬ 
monia and borax, a little fine sind and 
lemon juice for stains, a thorough cleans¬ 
ing, a light rub of some one of the e soft¬ 
eners, a pair of gloves at night, and the 
work is done. The great trouble is that 
girls think they want white hands, but they 
are either skeptical as to the results of care 
for their hands, or else are too in olent or 
careless to try proposed remedies for the 
disfigured members. They will not even 
take the trouble to wear the gloves, when 
they have them handy. Even a wash ot 
borax, and a rub of simple vaseline or the 
despised hen’s oil, with the gloves, will 
work wonders if persevered in for a short 
time. 
One Little Girl’s Lunch.— In answer 
to Judy Jones’s query, I will say that I, for 
one, think it does make a difference what 
onr children eat for luncheon. Our little 
rosy-cheeked eight-year-old daughter takes 
in her prttcy red lunch pail a whole slice of 
good bread and butter with just a sprink¬ 
ling of sugar, boiled eggs, molasses cookies 
and crumb pies. Of course she has a change 
sometimes, but she usually wants this bill 
of fare and it agrees with her well. For the 
benefit of some who may not know how to 
make “ crumb pies ” I will send my recipe 
for three pies in deep tins: Line the tins 
the same as for pumpkin pies, then put a 
tablespoonful of sour milk or buttermilk 
in the bottom of each crust and sprinkle 
with sugar; this is to make the “ crumbs ” 
stick. For crumbs take seven cupfuls of 
flour, two cupfuls of sugar, one and one- 
half cupful of lard and butter mixed, one 
teaspoonful each of soda, allspice and cin¬ 
namon, and one half of a nutmeg. Mix 
all nicely, then add half a cupfnl of sour 
milk or buttermilk; mix again, and fill the 
tins; then pour over the top of each pie five 
tablespoon fu Is of molasses, and bake 
slowly; try as you would cake. These are 
very good to have for breakfast with coffee. 
MRS. L. HULBERT. 
One cent will mail this paper to 
your friend in any part of the United 
States, Canada or Mexico, after 
you have read it and written vour 
name on the corner. 
In writing to advertisers please always 
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cured and prevented 
by the prompt 
use of 
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They 
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digestion. * 
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Lowell, Mass. 
IF YOU HAVIEI 
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Dowels, Dumb Ague, Sour Stomach and 
Helcliing; if your food does not assimilate 
and y ou have no appetite, 
Tull’s Pills 
will cure these troubles. Price, 25 cents. 
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skates ? The Pitts¬ 
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ahead. It gives 
^magnificent light. 
It is easy to 
care for. 
It keeps itself clean—all 
but wiping. 
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